Luke Thompson

What about recording vocab?

Do you record vocab?

Do you not try and put these words in context?

Are you going to put them in sentences?

Yeah, it's based on repetition.

Yeah, right, and it's not perfection.

You can't really expect 100% perfection, but you have to just acknowledge the bits that you're learning and progressing with, and the other stuff is just stuff that you're going to deal with later, I guess, at some point.

Quick question about watching content in the target language.

Subtitles or no subtitles for you?

Yeah, yeah, same.

Yeah, because, you know, again, people forget there are other factors involved in why a TV show or film might be difficult to understand.

It's not just because of your English level.

And I've talked about this quite a lot that, for example, the way that TV shows are recorded these days and the way that we listen to them, often on a device, you know, with a small speaker or something like that.

But yeah, the way that actors are recorded, they have these very small, tiny little microphones, which are very sensitive.

And as a result, like the style of shows, I don't know if it's a result of the recording techniques, but certainly the style of many TV shows these days is like,

uh to be hyper realistic and there's a lot of mumbling mumbled dialogue unlike in the olden days of movies and tv shows which were a lot more like theater performances where the actors would be delivering their lines of dialogue incredibly clearly like this these days it's like you know a lot of mumbled dialogue and you can hardly hear anything two and two together that's a good point you know i never actually plopped onto that

Yeah.

And also there's background noise.

You hear the street noise or whatever it is, or just the general hubbub of the background of the situation they're in.

And then there's music as well.